We are told often and repeatedly that Islam is a Religion of Peace and Tolerance. Why then are we Non-Muslims denied our Human Rights?
Why are Muslim Maldivians refusing to grant this basic human right to their Non Muslim brothers and sisters?
We exist. We want our rights as human beings.

Monday, December 31, 2007

The angry beggar at the feast

Recently I was at a community function and seated next to a local beggar who usually hangs around the neighborhood with his hand out always asking for spare change. I can't say the food was particularly good but most people took it in stride, he however lashed out and began shouting that the soda was poison, the food was disgusting and the particular food that he wanted and had been promised wasn't available. Eventually after eating some more, he left angrily.

On a scale of civilizations, Islam is the beggar at the feast. The modern world has birthed an incredible wealth of technologies and products, economic prosperity, human rights and freedoms. Knowledge and communication have been expanded as never before and mankind has gone from the depths of the ocean to set foot on the surface of the moon and within a decade Mars.

Liberal dogma has it that this 'feast' is one that excludes the developing nations and takes place at their expense, but it is not. Israel and Singapore are radically different countries but they are examples of how even small countries can harness technological and commercial energies to become players in the arena. Japan rebuilt itself after the devastation of WW2, two atomic bombs and American occupation to become a technological and economic superpower. Even in the 50's when Israel was less than a decade old and poor, an Israeli university was already running a supercomputer.

Anyone can join the feast, any country genuinely committed to

1. Educating its citizens

2. Progress

(Note that I didn't even include freedom on the list, because Singapore manages to do without it. But even these two terms scare Arab Muslim countries badly enough because they make it difficult to control the population.)

When the 21st century dawned, the Arab Muslim world's response to it in 2001 was the most brutal terrorist attack on a major civilian target in history. A target specifically associated with commerce and prosperity. Since then Islam has brought a new wave of terrorism across the world from Bali to Istanbul to London to Madrid. The bloody tide is supposed to usher in a Caliphate but all it is ushering in is the growing awareness by millions of Americans and Europeans that Islam is incompatible with a 21st century civilization.

Why does the beggar get angry at the feast? It isn't because he doesn't have enough, it's because he chooses not to have enough. There are plenty of people who are deprived, but the professional beggar is an entirely separate category, he transforms his inadequacy into his identity. This is the nature of Islam.

The new Islamic identity celebrates the inadequacies of the Muslim world as virtues. Muslim men can't look at women dressed normally without wanting to rape them, this their Imams transform into a virtue and a reflection of the "immoral women". Muslims can't get along with Non-Muslims, this the Imams claims is proof that Muslims are oppressed. Muslims display intolerance for the everyday practices of the people they live among, including their wine and their pork products, their Imams claim this represents a lack of respect for Muslims rather than the other way around.

Arab Muslim tyrannies can't participate in the 21st century and rather than changing their countries, they funnel dissatisfaction into terrorism against America and Israel and blame the whole thing on "outside interference". The beggar at the feast strikes again.

Islam has made such a natural ally for the left because both reject the idea of progress as immoral. The left has chosen to embrace global warming's call for "Back to the Caves" and the Arab Muslim world is already living there. Both piggyback on 21st century technologies like the internet while furiously employing it to denounce technology and the civilization that generates it. If the left represents the disgruntled epicurean and the Islamic hordes are the barbarians at the gate, their commonality is based on a need to overturn the social, moral and political order of the nation.

The endless Western aid that pours into the Muslim world represents welfare. The Marshall Plan funded the ability of devastated nations to get back on their feet (perhaps excessively so) while the US and the UN's programs continue to pour money in to nations that cannot productively use it and that choose to remain backward. No matter what you give the beggar at the feast, he will stay angry because anger is his identity. It is in the end humiliating to be a beggar, even if one chooses it, and humiliation spawns anger. And that anger burns the keenest and must be directed outward when that humiliation is the product of your own choices.

Islam has chosen to be the beggar of the new millennium and engaged in an orgy of violence to overturn civilization and become its master, building a caliphate of ignorance on the ruins of the civilized world.

4 comments:

Anonymous
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WLoasfOLpQ

she sums it up beautifully. and yes islam encourages a victim mentality. as a result some of them believe in the most laughable conspiracy theories ever hatched in history. thoeries about america and israel and europe ganging up on them. and their religion teaches them that the only way out is bombing and killing, not peaceful talks and compromising. proud. stupid. and irritable. just like the typical chauvinistic Arab male.

Beautiful article. Bravo..This is exactly the type of mentality that is been promoted by the moronic mullahs in Maldives; America and Israel to be blamed for the backwardness of Muslims. There is also the added element of nostalgia that the Arabs and Muslims were the most advanced civilization sometime back. But a deeper look into the world history would reveal that it was not Muslims or Arabs who did what little that can be attributed to this so-called "Islamic civilization"; Avicinna, Al-Bairuni and Al-Khwarizimi, etc. were the apostates within the barbaric Islamic states. Had they been true Muslims, they would have spent all their time drinking camel urine and praying the rock-god, Allah.

haha, funny how the u can speak with one side of ur mouth.Now where shud i start. U talk about 21 century modernizations. But in ur uninformed ignorance u dont know that it was the Muslims who brought the medieval Europe from the dark ages. While the Christian church shunned science it was in places like Islamic Spain where it flourished.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRSEFMCqK7Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH3NolnO7nM&feature=relatedU talk of the terrorist attacks. U forgot to mention the US n European governments which supported these brutal so called Moslem regimes which has nothing to do with Islam.Look at the mess they made in Iraq. By the way 911 was an inside job watch (Loose Change), plenty of evidence there ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E3oIbO0AWE )then u talk of muslim men and women. I dare any western non muslim to honestly declare themselves free of sexual inhibitions. Just compare the statistics where does rape occur in ur civilized west or in muslim countries. The Hijab is not forced on the women, rather they themselves take it in. We respect our women where else u exploit them in the name of liberalization. Ur men have reduced them to mere sex object with ur normally ( skimpy ) cloths.U have this fondness for Isreal as if it was the most peace loving country.The truth is it is one of the most barbaric countries in the whole world. It had defied more than 66 UN resolutions all with the backing of the US, destroying anyone who got in their way including Muslims, Christians or whoever. U didnt also mention the billions of tax payer money, not to mention the weapons (including Nuclear), US hands out to the Israel without which they would be nothing.So with all these, it is a wonder that Islam is the fastest growing religion. Out of which three out of four converts from west are females. Modern western ladies turning to ur so called women oppressing relirion. Do they have some death wish or something for maybe something for in the muslim men which u seems to lack.( dont think of any filthy ideas, im talking about Respect ). Doesnt make sense.Islam.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFZrSPUoH3ISo i suggest u educate ur self before u try to educate others.This is like u said but failed to recognize a developed world. pple just dont buy in to anystuff just like that. They need proof and reasoning. Not opinions. So better luck next time ( making a fool out of urself )

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Maldives Constitution: No Citizenship for non-Muslims

Article 9, Section D : “a non-Muslim may not become a citizen of the Maldives.”

By denying citizenship to some people on the basis of their religion, the country is violating religious minorities’ freedom of worship.

“This denial of citizenship to non-Muslims is an extraordinarily harsh measure which places the Maldives among the worst countries in the world in regards to the legal foundation for freedom of religion and belief,”

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance".

Adopted by UN General Assembly Resolution 217A (III) of 10 December 1948